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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1931-07-10

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1931-07-10, page 01

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
VOL. XV—No. 28
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY 10, 1931
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By the Way
By David Schwartz
Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant?
By MARTIN ABELSON
Heads tin<l Superiority
Dr. Isidor Llicvinc, aullior of lliat transiently suppressed work—Ariadne— has turned anthropologist. Lhevine has left for some savage island, where tlicy practice shrinking heads. Folk of that island, it sccnis, may start out needing a hat, size seven, and end vip with a bonnet of an inch less. ,
I have read somewhere that Hippoc¬ rates, the father of medicine, gives some prescriptions for achieving varia¬ tions in the size of the head. But some first hand accounts of whole people do¬ ing it should prove interesting. Perhaps Dr. Lhevine will introduce a new vogue in civih'zation.' Maybe, the women folk of the future when they visit the beau¬ tician will be asked: "Would you care to have your head done over ? Wouldn't you like a topper just a little more doli¬ chocephalic than your present noodle?" Heads Don't Alwaya Win Up to now, the dolichocephalic (long headed) people have been doing a lot of boasting at the expense of tbe brachiacc- phalic (broad headed); The long head is one of the greatest sources of pride^ to the Nordic braggarts. Tbe long head, they tell us, is the sign of superiority. , Broad and round heads are the charac¬ teristics of inferior people.
I have searched for reasons for their conclusion and can only find that the long heads have concluded that tlicy are : superior by the simple geometry of ad¬ mitting it. They admit they are superior. Weil, I.don't know—maybe the long heads arc superior. But all 1 want them to do is to explain the fact that the broad heads and round heads include such figures as Beethoven, Plato, Na¬ poleon, Pascal—Shall I go aiid add to the list? No. Let them answer as to these first, and then. I'll give them a few more.
Some More Theorizing
Am.azing is the human efifort to prove one type superior to the next. Our good friend, Arthur Brisbane, was in the habit of semi-annually, oracle-like issuing a pronunciamentd that superior people have blue eyes. Havelocfc Ellis once came forth with the statement that the genius is either short in stature or tall. ' A middle sized man could be no genius. From which, all I can gather is that Brisbane hasv blue eyes and Ellis is not middle sized.
Lombroso was sure that the genius was always a degenerate. Freud, that the genius is irierely the offshoot of an inferiority complex. Dr. Watson, the bchaviorist, says it all rests on the un- striped viscera. Moreover, Watson says at birth, all stand on a i>arlty. Since tfie days of Rufus Choatc, we have been in the habit of describing that phrase of the Declaration of. Independence, "all men are created equal" as "glittering generalities." But comes Watson, and , says that it is the cold, scientific truth.
_ AU I've got to say in winding up this discussion is--lct us not assume that it is the size" of the head, the pigment of the skin or anything else that determines su¬ periority, before we are sure there there is such a thing as superiority.
The House of the Red Shield
[EDfTOfi'S NOTE: With com- me\\ccmey\i weeks already a jncmory, thoimnids of young Jewish men and women have been sent into the employ¬ ment market, Tlw.te ivfin graduated from high scfionl, if Ifiey intend to con¬ tinue their studies, zvonder to what cnu they should direct their studies. Many graduates of colleges ami professional schools arc still faced zvilh the jrroblem of discovering a field in which Ihey can make a living. The Ohio Jeivish Chron¬ icle here gives a general survey in zvhich tfw various professions, trades and iii- dtislries arc rc-evaliiated from the pos¬ sibilities they offer to ihc young Jew io- ilay.]
Junior B'nai B'rith (A. Z. A.)
Convention Opens at
Milwaukee Sunday
Weizmann Leaves Platform as Wise, at Stormy Congress Session, Indicts England for Failure With Mandate and Scores Weizmann's Policies
Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief? For the last generation, and in good times, the song was simple enough. It went, "Doctor, lawyer." The father might have been a merchant; the son had to be a doctor or a lawyer. Next best, an archi¬ tect or all engineer. On the second plant of desirability, a dentist. Those profes¬ sions, by and large, embraced the extent of the Jewish parents' ambitious for their children.
Today, there is a depression. Now, a depression might be a very temporary thing. Why should a_ young man just entering college take into consideration tbe fact that lawyers are having a pretty bad time of it during the depres¬ sion? By the time he is ready to take his bar examination conditions will prob¬ ably bave changed.
Today, there are too many doctors in the cities. It is true tbat if a physician wants to go out to.a small town he will find a ^reat many spots clamoring ¦ for his services, bnt what Jewish young man thinks of going out to a small town as a physician?
Therd are plenty of dentists, there are enough engineers to populate Russia, architects have nothing to do but make projects for imaginary cities of the fu¬ ture. The wise young graduate, though realizing that all these things may change, finds in the present situation this much of a warning: he wants to choose an occupation or profession that will pot get "hung up" in bad times; he wants to find something to do that is needed.
Still, what he wants most—and often, what his parents want for him, is, a cer¬ tain respectability, an entry into the edu¬ cated classes, a profession that labels him at least, a university graduate. The two most respectable professioiis remain medi¬ cine and law. , What are the chances?
The story in medicine need not be re¬ told. Books have been written recently, pointing out the difficulties that beset the Jewish student who so much as desires to eiitcr a medical college. If. he is a New York boy, even an extremely high aver¬ age may not help him into a local medi¬ cal school. Some, determined to be doc¬ tors, go abroad to study—to universities in Ireland, Austria, France. Others go to the rural colleges, to the South and West. When tbey graduate and come back to New York to practice, however, they will find sledding bard. -
As for law—let us take the. warning of Bernard S. Deutsch, president of tbe American Jewish Congress, who speaks as a lawyer. . "It is a matter of public
ing to. the already existing burden of dis¬ crimination ¦ xvbich, unfortunately, per¬ vades even tbe sanctity of the law, where justice is presumed to be rooted.;
"At present, it is the disposition of the legal profession to so control admission to tbe bar as to exclude, insofar as possi¬ ble, those candidates whose cultural and ethical background', is found wanting. This would serve a two-fold purpose: first, to uphold the zealously guarded dig¬ nity and nobility of the profession, and second, to deplete the rapidly growing ranks of lawyers, by elimination of tlie unfit.
"Jn view of the general and specific difficulties above set forth, it would be well for the Jewish student aspiring to the bar to carefully review his qualifica¬ tions, and to assure himself of financial independence, before attempting the long, rough road leading to the legal Parnassus."
"To assure himself of financial inde¬ pendence"— puts it very neatly. The young Jew must not look to law for his living, for some while, if he insists on going into that work. As most people, look to their profession for an income, it would seem that the bar is for the ma¬ jority of aspirants, eliminated.
What of the less popular, but consider¬ able professions? WTiat of journalism, social work, teaching, the rabbinate? It lias repeatedly been pointed out tbat there are far too many schools of journalism, as the profession is a small one, and the preparations made for it are far out of proportion to the advantages it offers, At the nioment in New York, hundreds of capable journalists are without work,
The social field is growing, and trained workers are in demand. There is a spe¬ cial traihing school for Jewish social service workers, the students are usually doing graduate work, often students al¬ ready holding masters' and 'doctors* de¬ grees. But it is evident that this field might easily be over-crowded if even a fourth of,, those who ordinarily would study for law should turn to social serv-
"Jewish Consciousness" Com-
mittee to Present Featiire
Report
The Austrian house of Rothschilds, so k"owledge that the legal profession is, the papers say, is being liquidated. The at the present time, substantially over-
holdings depreciated more than a score of miUions, according to tbe same ac¬ count. ;
The reason given by other bankers for the fall bf the famous banking house, which at one time held Europe in its palm, is the friction tbat Kas developed between the various branches of the Rothschilds.
The first Rothschild,-you remember, is supposed on his dying bed to have im¬ portuned the members of his family to stick together And the truth is that the early greatness of Rothschild was built on this cleaving together of the members of the family. But a new generation has arisen, which "knows not Joseph." Relativity and Rothschilds I don't- know why it is, but blood doesn't scein to he very thick. Abie Ka- bibble perhaps expressed the truth pretty accurately, when he said:^">"Only a friend can be an enemy, a relative already is." Very few are the fortunes tbat last for more than a couple of generations. It's the old story, "from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves." And perhaps, it is well that way. The Torah. seemed anxious to bring aboiit _ that very condition. The year of Jubilee, in which al) lands re¬ verted to their original owner.s. was de¬ signed for that purpose. Mr. Rosenwald is following, the Jewish spirit in provid¬ ing for the distribution of all of his philanthropic funds within twenty-five years.
Washington a Jew? The temijcrature is in the nineties. Maybe that explains it. I am referring to a good lady genealogist, who comes forth, under bold headlines, to announce that George Washington was a descend¬ ant of King- Colomon. She doesn't say which of Solomon's thousand wives wa's the mother, but just knowing that Sol¬ onion is the father is reassuring. I think it is very fine, George Wasliington was not a Christian. Tbat I long knew. No¬ where til his writings, in his military orders, does he eyer mention Christ, al¬ though he mentions Providence quite frequently. But I never knew till now that George was a Semite. He was a man, whom anv people could be proud of —<lespitc the dcbunkers. He coincs forth from all their analyses, a genuine man and were it not for the fact tbat I am sure that the pood lady must have gotten some other Solomon all. mixed up in the Washington genealogy, I'd be real proud of it
Modern Day KisBiner You remember that poem vou read in yonr school davs bv Leigh Hunt, begin¬ ning: "Jenny kissed me when we met." F. PJ\ A., the Jewish columnist of Ihe (Continued on page 4)
crowded," he says. "So much so as to constitute a serious economic problem for practitioners in general, and the more recent comers to the bar in particular.
In addition, the prevailing economic depression has made itself felt in the legal field, as elsewhere. This has neces¬ sarily narrowed the field of employment, automatically affecting young Jewish law clerks and practitioners, and thereby add-
Jewish young women have turned to teaching as. heavily as the young men have turned to medicine and law. The point, might' be made tbat this steady re¬ spectable, and decently, remunerative pro¬ fession has perhaps, too long been the province of women. In the grade schools it is rare to find a male instructor Outside of the shopsi Above teaching tn high scliobls, unfortunately, it is rarely tbat a Jew isj found. As for a man, a teacliing career can hardly be considered a "career' unless he feels be has a chance at a pro- fcssjorship; the general discrimination against" Jewish professors in the colleges severely limits the possibilities in tbat field.
Gradually, more bright young men are turning to the rabbinate. But it is, of course, a field limited by the number of ^iir congregations.
The general cffe<;t.oLthe depression on the, graduates seeking professions must be to scatter them. .This, in itself, may be good. It may cause more young men and women to specialize in minor fields to which they discover themselves suited. It may even bring a certain proportion to go into "the store" or the small business built up by their parents, and to find that they can be useful in that way, that they can put their energies to developuig, mod¬ ernizing, the ''business." The scattering of the younger Jews from medicine and law may even send some of them back to the trades. The danger is that the "laft meiich"—the person ivho "lives on air", practices a dozen professions, without one real means of support—will develop in America.
(Copyright, IMl, J. -T. A.)
OMAHA, NEBR.—An estimated at- leiulaiicc of five hundred boys arc ex¬ pected to be assembled at Hotel Pfister when the opening session of the 8th In¬ ternational Junior B'nai B'rith (A. Z. A.) convention is called to order this Sunday morning, July I2tb, by Grand AJcph Ggdol Aaron Tollin, Chester, Pa. These young men, all between the ages of 10 and 21, will have traveled many hundreds of miles from all parts of this, country and Canada, in order to take part in tbe important functions which arc scheduled throughout the entire three days of the conclave.
Sunday'.^ program embraces an entire day. The morning will be devoted to tbe opening session consisting of wel- comings from local and international of¬ ficials and the Grand Aleph Godol's an¬ nual message. This will be followed by a noon luncheon and address by. Judge Charles Aaron, past president of District Grand Lodge No, G of the B'nai B'rith. Philip Seman, director of the Jewish People's Institute of Chicago, is to ad¬ dress the convention in the afternoon and lead a discussion forum on problems of interest to Jewish youth. In the eve¬ ning, a city-wide open meeting will be held for the purpose of acquainting the Jewry of Milwaukee with A. Z. A. and its program. ,
The degree team of Milwaukee Chap¬ ter No, 30 will present the Judas, Mac¬ cabeus Degree, a two scene playlet sym¬ bolizing the struggle against bigotry and race prejudice in which the seven car¬ dinal virtues of A, Z, A, arc portrayea; Richard Gutstadt, director of the B'nai B'rith 'Membership, , Cinchinati, is speaker of the evening.
At the first business session, Monday morning, the Jewish Consciousness Com¬ mittee is to make, its report I. Adriel Fried, San Francisco, California, chair¬ man of the committee, has sent out over fifteen hundred letters tb the most I prominent religious and lay leaders of America in an effort to learn how the A. Z. A. can best promote Jewish con¬ sciousness among Jewish youth.
On Monday.noon, a novelty luncheon is to be given at the Schlitz Brewery. The convention Ball will be 'held in the evening. Tuesday is devoted to sessions. The convention will formally come to a close at a baiwiuet in tbe evening. Here, Sam Beber, of Oniaha, Nebr., founder of A. Z. A., will deliver an address. Annual awards will also be made. It is hoped that at this time the results of the recent international essay contest on "Employment Discrimination Against the Jew"'will be in from the judges and the winners announced.
All sessions and affairs will be held at the Pfister Hotel. '
Aleph Zadik Aleph is sponsored under tbe Wider Scope of the B'nai B'rith.
Wider Scope Drives in Middle
West Succeeding Despite
Depression
CINCINNATI, OHIO—Special, sum¬ mer efforts to collect outstanding pledges to the B'nai B'rith Wider Scope will be made throughout the Middle West dur¬ ing July and August, according to Isidor Kadis, national field director, who has just returned to B'nat B'rith national headquarters here after lengthy visits through Districts No, 2 and 0.
Mr. Kadis attended the recent conven¬ tion of District No. 2 at West Baden, Ind., where, after conferences with Louis Eorinsteiii, Indianapolis, national chairman of Wider Scope, and other leaders of the movement, he was given definite assurance ofsupiwrt The con ventioji itself voted to assume a quota for 1031 of *fiO,000.
The first indication of summer ac-r tivity from the smaller communities was expressed in a letter from Samuel Has- senbusch, leader of the Wider Scope campaign in St. Joseph, Mo. A check for $000 was enclosed, as the most re¬ cent payment on the $8,500 quota as¬ sumed ill 1027, This brings St. Joseph's payments up to more tban |3,D0O. Mr. Hassenbusch himself gave $500. The St, Joseph Jewish community numbers only 3,500, with 195 menibers in the lo¬ cal B'nai B'rith lodge.
Peoria, III,, furnishes another example of Wider Scope activity. This little communhy of only 30ft Jewish families pledged :^22,000 for five years back in lft37, and more than two-thirds is al¬ ready paid. ' Peoria is the home of the late Rabbi Benjaiiii" Frankel, founder of the Hillel Foundations, and his brother, Harry Frankel, a member of the General Committee of District No.
BASLE—(J. T. A.)—The stormiest session the present Zionist Congress has yet witnessed came late Friday, July 3rd, when Dr. Stephen S. Wise of New York, speaking as the representative of the American delegation, came out with an excoriating indictment of Fnglaiid for its failure to fulfill the obligations of the Palestine Mandate and a bitter attack on the leadership of Dr, Weizmann., At one point the Congress was thrown into an uproar when Dr. Weizmann left the platform in demonstrative protest against the speaker and the Laboritc delegates attempted to shout him down with cries of "demagogue" and appeals to the chair¬ man to forbid the continuance of his speech,
"I indict the present government of England on this tribunal of the Jewish Ijcoplc before the moral conscience of the world as having tragically failed to fulfill its obligations under the Palestine Mandate to tbe Jewish people," Dr. Wise called out.
"Dr. Weizmann's speech sounded like a statement by the British government," he .continued, "but my word will be a statement to the British government. Whether it will be necessary to speak against England depends on whether we shall have a leadership which shall speak to England." Dr.. Wise then declared that lie offered no indictment against the English people. "How," he asked, "can I indict Lord Balfour, Lloyd George, Lord Plumer and General Smuts? It is these who arc representative of the Eng¬ lish people and not Lord Passfield, High Commissioner Chancellor and Keith Roach, district commissioner iri Palestine." .
"Security, Land, Immigration" The three major points for' the estab¬ lishment of the Jewish National Home are security, land and immigration, Dr. Wise said. "Security should not rest on British bayonets but on an end of the willand efforts on the part of British officials in Palestine who incite the Arabs against the JcwSv We. do not demand safety for our men in Palestine, but we demand that the British government grant security for women, children and old men who were the especially chosen victims of the 1029, riflts. Our second demand is. free and legal access to the land, and our third is freedom of im¬ migration.
"During tbe past two years we have bad none of these things. We have had bad laws administered by worse oflicials. We had utter and tragic insecurity. We had restriction, even cancellation of im¬ migration. We are justified in saying that the establishment of the Jewish Na¬ tional Home has been practically an¬ nulled by fiat of the British Govern¬ ment."
Characterizing Dr, Weizmann's speech as a personal apologia and not a political address, Dr. Wise emphasized that the Congress "will never accept the Mac¬ Donald letter as setting right tbe White Paper. The letter is not a treaty of peace but red cross relief for those sorely wounded by the Grand Mufti, Lord Pass- field and the pogroms.
Letter Cancels White.Paper "All major and minor pogroms in Palestine hurt Great Britain at least as much as they hurt us. Our leadership maintains that the MacDonald letter is ft virtual cancellation of the White Paper.
However, not the White Paper but im¬ migration permits were cancelled. Eng¬ land's answer to the Mufti-led pogrom- ists was the cancellation of permits. Our leadership's answer was the wbittline down of the Jewish National Home into a bi-national state. Wc have had insults, indignity, shame and degradation from tbe British Government which learned the art of fifty-fifty from the Jewish Af^ency, fifty percent for the Arabs and fifty percent against the Jews."
It was, at this [joint of Dr. Wise's speech that the Congress was thrown into an uproar. Dr. Weizmann rose- from the platform and : iti a half demonstrative . fashion left the hall while Dr. Wise was speaking, Ont in the lobby he explained that he left because he considered Dr. Wise's address unparliamentary and ir¬ responsible. ¦
After Dr. Weizmann left the hall the Laboritc delegates, vyho, have been Dr. Weizmann's staunchcst supporters, shouted "you arc a dciuagogne" to Dr. Wise and attempted to prevent him from continuing with bis address. Jacob Fish¬ man of New York, claiming that he spoke for the American delegates of the group headed by Louig Lipsky, former president of the Zionist Organization of America, declared that Dr. Wise did not speak in the name of their group. In the' meantime, Dr. M. D, Eder, leader of the British genera! Zionists^ called upon Dr. Leo Motzkin, the chairman, to prevent Dr, Wise from continuing.
Dr. Motzkin, however, found that Dr. Wise bad spoken in parliamentary form. "So long as- I am chairman," he ruled, "I shall not prevent him from continu¬ ing."
Arab Problem Invented The uproar lasted for some lime. When it finally quieted down Dr. Wise con¬ tinued: "If the Balfour Declaration had read .'the aim of His Majesty's Govern¬ ment is to hinder, obstruct and frustrate the establishment of the Jewish National Home', the Declaration would have been abundantly fulfilled. England is respon¬ sible for an understanding between the Jews and the Arabs which London and Jerusalem officials have done everything to make impossible notwithstanding the fact that .the Jews are willing, nay eager, for such an understanding. There would not have been an Arab problem in Pales¬ tine if the Palestine government had not invented it or evolved it." ¦
Asserting that the Zionist Executive had no right to accept the MacDonald letter as a basis for cooperation, Dr. Wise declared that'this letter should not have been answered by Dr. Weizmann three months ago, but by the present Congress. "The land development scheme is. the best proof that the Mac¬ Donald letter offers no basis for coopera¬ tion," he charged.
"We have cooperated fully and loyally for ten years and in return we have hurt and reprisal, wrong arid murder. The Arabs have not cooperated, and they have gotten all tbcy wanted, '^'he Arabs do not even find it worthwhile to go to Lon¬ don ifor the purpose of a conference as wc must go. We must speak to England as England likes to be spoken to. No leadership is qualified to speak for us which faces the Britisli government in the spirit Of 'yoii'are'great arid we are small, you are all and we arc nothing.' That our leadership has lost faith in the (Continued on page 4)
(I, is in charge of Wider Scope collec tions there.
Mr. Kadis conferred in Cbicajgo with leaders of District .No, 6, and addressed several Chicago B'nai B'rith lodges, which promised active cooperation. A special contribution was made immedi¬ ately by Adolf Kraus I-odge. Plans \vcre made for continuing Chicago Jew¬ ry's support of the Wider Scoiic move¬ ment at a conference of leaders at the Covenant Club under the chairmanship of Rabbi Louis L. Mann. William Sul¬ tan, president of District No. 6, is chair¬ man of the new collection campaign.
CHAS. LEDERMAN PASSES
Chas, Lederman, 105 East Town St. passed away Wednesday niorning at the age of 75. He was'a member; of Temple Israel, B'nai B'rith, Masonic Order and onu of the founders of the Elks at Marion, O. Surviving him is a cousin, Morris Lederman of Marion, O,
Funeral services took place Friday at 2:30 p. m. at the funeral parlors of Den¬ ton & Donaldson, 318 East Town St. with Rabbi Jacob Tarshish officiating. Burial was made at Grecnlawn. The officers of Zion Lodge, B'nai B'rith, acted as pall¬ bearers.
Ladies' Free Loan Society Will Hold Picnic at Olen¬ tangy Park iSunday
The Ladies' Free Loan Society will hold its annual picnic at Olentangy Park, Sunday, July 12tli. 4 report was made by the committee in charge of this outing that all arrangements for a grand and glorious time have been com¬ pleted. - .
There will be dancing in the beautiful Olentangy ball room both afternoon and evening, as well as many other amuse¬ ments in which everyone can participate.
Tickets for admission to the park may still be procured from, any member of- the society. The tickets arc selling for a nominal sum of 10c. This ticket also entitles the bolder to a chance on several drawings which will be held at the picnic headquarters at 7 o'clock.
Bring your' family and friends out early and spend the day at Olentangy Park—And don't forget your basket.
Remember—tbe picnic takes place to¬ morrow (Sunday) at Olentangy Parle-
VOLINER SOCIETY PICNIC SET FOR SUNDAY AUG- 9
The annual picnic of the Voliner So¬ ciety will be held on Sunday, August 9th, at Heimandale Grove. Admission is free to all. Everyone is welcome. Come and spend an enjoyable afternoon with the Voliner Society on Sunday, August 9th.
Watch the Chronicle for further an nouncements.
AHAVAS SHOLEM THANKS ITS MANY SUPPORTERS
The Ahavas Sholem Picnic which was held at Olentangy Park Jast Sunday proved most successful. Chairmen Mesdames A. Bender, J. Kotosky and H. Beckman take this means ot thanking all those who attended this outdoor event, and their committee who cooperatjcd with them.
PIONEERS OP PALESTINE TO MEET JULY 15TH
T'le Pioneers of Palestine will hold their regular itiecting on Wednesday, July 15th, at 7:80 p ni., at the Agudath Achim Congregation.
Shell Oil Company Denies Bias to Jews in Palestine
In tlie June issue of "The Sign of the Shell,'* published monthly in the interests of the employes and dealers of the Shell Eastern Petroleum Products, Inc., the company takes occasion to deny published reports that in hiring or discharging em¬ ployes it has been discriminating against Jews. In a special statement entitled "A Shell Policy," the company's organ points out that "there is no desire or at¬ tempt to impose... restrictions of race
or' creed uiKin their employes."
The statement further adds that "everyone familiar with the history of Shell knows that Jewish capital and able, far-seeing Jewish business men have been and are today factors of the utmost im- porttincc in some of the. Shell companies" and that "the broad, policies of the Shell organization would make impossible an^' discrimination against Jews, just as it would make impossible any discrimina¬ tion against Catholics or Protestants.'' ¦
The statement is the result of reports published in the Jewish press of tbis country that the Shell Oil Company in Palestine had dismissed all or most of its Jewish employes in Haifa.,
Blames Jewish Community
For Failure to Bar Passion
Play
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUM¬ BIA—(J. T. A.)—Inertia on the part of the Jewish community is held resjKtn- sible by Frederick Landsberg for the failure to prevent the presentation of the Passion Play in Victoria, B. C, the city which honored him a year ago by voting bim as iti best citiien. After single- handedly using every- influence in his power to pi^event it being shown in Vic¬ toria, Mr. Landsberg found that he had begun his efforts ,too late, due to the delay of other n}embers_ In the com¬ munity in coming to his aid.
As a result of his experiences, Mr. Landsberg has sounded a warning to other cities of the Pacific Coast. "I know definitely that this company is in¬ tending to present the Passion Play in other cities of the Coast, in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco." he said. "From my extwrience I feel sure that they can be prevented, if action is started before full arrangements arc made. In Victoria I was able to gain the sympathy and cooperation of all the city officials and clergy, but I started' too late, for all arrangements had been defi- initely completed."
KALLEN WOULD ABOLISH
ALL JEWISH COLLEGE
FRATERNITIES
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y.—The Jewish college fraternity was attacked as "one of the most vicious forms of imitation of the Gentiles adopted by the Jews since the war" and Zionism was held out as the only force through which ¦ the Jew could achieve "a sense of helonging," by Dr. Horace M. Kallen of the New School for Social Research in a lecture vcstclday before a group of Jewish stu¬ dents from many American universities who attended the summer courses of Avukah, Anierican student Zionist federa¬ tion,, at Camp Scopus.
"I would abolish all of the Jewish fraternities," said Dr, Kallen. "It is one of the most artificial forms that has come up in the process of the assimilation of the Jews in the academic community. The fraternities are tbe niost vicious , form of Gentile imitation, and contribute nothing to the adjustment of the Jew to Ainerican life." ,
In outlining tbe relation of the Ameri¬ can Jew to Zionism, Dr. Kallen said that the eventual political or economic suc¬ cess of tbe Zionist program did not de¬ termine tlie value of the movement to the American Jew who gained a sense of "belonging" irrespective of the fcventual fate of Zionist aims. Dr. Kallen declared that oidv when the Jew achieved the sense of belonging to something as a Jew could he become at ease as an American. "Zionism has had a much more, fun¬ damental efl'ect on the life of the modern Jew than has the synagogue," he said. Dr. Kallen also urged the students to observe that, as Jews were becoming Americanized, America was also becom¬ ing, to a degree, Judaized.
The Avukah summer school, which closed yesterday, was attended by over 100 students from 10 colleges.
AGUDATH ACHIM JOINT PICNIC SUNDAY, JULY 2B
¦ Big plans are being made by the Brotherhood and, Sisterhood of the Agu¬ dath Achim tongregation for thtir Joint picnic which is scheduled to lake place on Sunday, July 26tli. \ '
Further announcements concerning this event will be published in the forlhcora- iiig issue of the Chronicle.

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VOL. XV—No. 28
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY 10, 1931
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By the Way
By David Schwartz
Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant?
By MARTIN ABELSON
Heads tinarlty. Since tfie days of Rufus Choatc, we have been in the habit of describing that phrase of the Declaration of. Independence, "all men are created equal" as "glittering generalities." But comes Watson, and , says that it is the cold, scientific truth.
_ AU I've got to say in winding up this discussion is--lct us not assume that it is the size" of the head, the pigment of the skin or anything else that determines su¬ periority, before we are sure there there is such a thing as superiority.
The House of the Red Shield
[EDfTOfi'S NOTE: With com- me\\ccmey\i weeks already a jncmory, thoimnids of young Jewish men and women have been sent into the employ¬ ment market, Tlw.te ivfin graduated from high scfionl, if Ifiey intend to con¬ tinue their studies, zvonder to what cnu they should direct their studies. Many graduates of colleges ami professional schools arc still faced zvilh the jrroblem of discovering a field in which Ihey can make a living. The Ohio Jeivish Chron¬ icle here gives a general survey in zvhich tfw various professions, trades and iii- dtislries arc rc-evaliiated from the pos¬ sibilities they offer to ihc young Jew io- ilay.]
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Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief? For the last generation, and in good times, the song was simple enough. It went, "Doctor, lawyer." The father might have been a merchant; the son had to be a doctor or a lawyer. Next best, an archi¬ tect or all engineer. On the second plant of desirability, a dentist. Those profes¬ sions, by and large, embraced the extent of the Jewish parents' ambitious for their children.
Today, there is a depression. Now, a depression might be a very temporary thing. Why should a_ young man just entering college take into consideration tbe fact that lawyers are having a pretty bad time of it during the depres¬ sion? By the time he is ready to take his bar examination conditions will prob¬ ably bave changed.
Today, there are too many doctors in the cities. It is true tbat if a physician wants to go out to.a small town he will find a ^reat many spots clamoring ¦ for his services, bnt what Jewish young man thinks of going out to a small town as a physician?
Therd are plenty of dentists, there are enough engineers to populate Russia, architects have nothing to do but make projects for imaginary cities of the fu¬ ture. The wise young graduate, though realizing that all these things may change, finds in the present situation this much of a warning: he wants to choose an occupation or profession that will pot get "hung up" in bad times; he wants to find something to do that is needed.
Still, what he wants most—and often, what his parents want for him, is, a cer¬ tain respectability, an entry into the edu¬ cated classes, a profession that labels him at least, a university graduate. The two most respectable professioiis remain medi¬ cine and law. , What are the chances?
The story in medicine need not be re¬ told. Books have been written recently, pointing out the difficulties that beset the Jewish student who so much as desires to eiitcr a medical college. If. he is a New York boy, even an extremely high aver¬ age may not help him into a local medi¬ cal school. Some, determined to be doc¬ tors, go abroad to study—to universities in Ireland, Austria, France. Others go to the rural colleges, to the South and West. When tbey graduate and come back to New York to practice, however, they will find sledding bard. -
As for law—let us take the. warning of Bernard S. Deutsch, president of tbe American Jewish Congress, who speaks as a lawyer. . "It is a matter of public
ing to. the already existing burden of dis¬ crimination ¦ xvbich, unfortunately, per¬ vades even tbe sanctity of the law, where justice is presumed to be rooted.;
"At present, it is the disposition of the legal profession to so control admission to tbe bar as to exclude, insofar as possi¬ ble, those candidates whose cultural and ethical background', is found wanting. This would serve a two-fold purpose: first, to uphold the zealously guarded dig¬ nity and nobility of the profession, and second, to deplete the rapidly growing ranks of lawyers, by elimination of tlie unfit.
"Jn view of the general and specific difficulties above set forth, it would be well for the Jewish student aspiring to the bar to carefully review his qualifica¬ tions, and to assure himself of financial independence, before attempting the long, rough road leading to the legal Parnassus."
"To assure himself of financial inde¬ pendence"— puts it very neatly. The young Jew must not look to law for his living, for some while, if he insists on going into that work. As most people, look to their profession for an income, it would seem that the bar is for the ma¬ jority of aspirants, eliminated.
What of the less popular, but consider¬ able professions? WTiat of journalism, social work, teaching, the rabbinate? It lias repeatedly been pointed out tbat there are far too many schools of journalism, as the profession is a small one, and the preparations made for it are far out of proportion to the advantages it offers, At the nioment in New York, hundreds of capable journalists are without work,
The social field is growing, and trained workers are in demand. There is a spe¬ cial traihing school for Jewish social service workers, the students are usually doing graduate work, often students al¬ ready holding masters' and 'doctors* de¬ grees. But it is evident that this field might easily be over-crowded if even a fourth of,, those who ordinarily would study for law should turn to social serv-
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The Austrian house of Rothschilds, so k"owledge that the legal profession is, the papers say, is being liquidated. The at the present time, substantially over-
holdings depreciated more than a score of miUions, according to tbe same ac¬ count. ;
The reason given by other bankers for the fall bf the famous banking house, which at one time held Europe in its palm, is the friction tbat Kas developed between the various branches of the Rothschilds.
The first Rothschild,-you remember, is supposed on his dying bed to have im¬ portuned the members of his family to stick together And the truth is that the early greatness of Rothschild was built on this cleaving together of the members of the family. But a new generation has arisen, which "knows not Joseph." Relativity and Rothschilds I don't- know why it is, but blood doesn't scein to he very thick. Abie Ka- bibble perhaps expressed the truth pretty accurately, when he said:^">"Only a friend can be an enemy, a relative already is." Very few are the fortunes tbat last for more than a couple of generations. It's the old story, "from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves." And perhaps, it is well that way. The Torah. seemed anxious to bring aboiit _ that very condition. The year of Jubilee, in which al) lands re¬ verted to their original owner.s. was de¬ signed for that purpose. Mr. Rosenwald is following, the Jewish spirit in provid¬ ing for the distribution of all of his philanthropic funds within twenty-five years.
Washington a Jew? The temijcrature is in the nineties. Maybe that explains it. I am referring to a good lady genealogist, who comes forth, under bold headlines, to announce that George Washington was a descend¬ ant of King- Colomon. She doesn't say which of Solomon's thousand wives wa's the mother, but just knowing that Sol¬ onion is the father is reassuring. I think it is very fine, George Wasliington was not a Christian. Tbat I long knew. No¬ where til his writings, in his military orders, does he eyer mention Christ, al¬ though he mentions Providence quite frequently. But I never knew till now that George was a Semite. He was a man, whom anv people could be proud of —